A lot of interesting posts here. HTML has a comfortable feel about it. Its main value is in Simplicity, familiarity and consistency.
But there's things can't do in HTML or AJAX or any available Javascript project that you can do using the Flash plug-in. That's what it comes down to. That's why people use Flash. Not as an alternative but because there is no alternative. Silverlight is changing that, but i'll wait and see for that one. In terms of development.. Its painful... bad.. Flex and Actionscript 3 made it a lot better.. A proper OOP language aids development hugely. The main problem using Flex is designing for Flex is terrible.. The current flex framework is difficult to work with.. Thats why this Thermo tool sounds sooooo nice.. They're showing demos of RIA's designed in other Adobe products (photoshop, illustrator, flash) and generating Flex apps, without needing to compromise the original design. This would be difficult to achieve using the current Flex 3 framework, but apparently in Flex 4 (which i'm guessing Thermo is targeted at) we've got a new MVC architecture for the framework, so they can generate the highly customised designs without effecting Application and client/server communication logic which is handy for the developers. regards, Bjorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=27483 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
